GEOG 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Regional Geography, Codependency, Geopolitics
8 Apr 2019
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There is this thing called happy couples, where they have mutual dependence on each other. They both benefit from having that relationship with each other. A lot of countries trade with each other. Country a. and country b might create an industrial economy, like an interconnected mode like us and canada. Another type of dependency is multidependency. (multiple dependents) A spider web can be used as an analogy for these connections. One of the fears of the spider web if you tinker with it, it might collapse. When we have this interdependency on a global scale, we are relying on a system that keeps it from falling apart; so, stability, stability, stability. That is what the world trade organization, imf, etc. ; these are all institutions that are created after world. War ii, as primary leadership of making the system incredibly stable, so this benefits all. There are some that argue interdependency is a higher form of life.
